if you look behind the keywords, they are describing topics in a hierarchical system. that is the only logical way to broaden or narrow searches. adding or removing keywords does in an ad-hoc manner. go to any shopping web site to see why you need to organize your pictures into hierarchical categories. ecommerce sites live and die by how easy it is to find things. keywords are just to get you started.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:49 AM Subject: Re: database software > Herb Chong wrote: > > libraries use a hierarchy and not keywords for a reason. > > The original and most important reason being the difficulty of > implementing a keyword search engine for a manual card index system! > The library at my place of work uses a keyword-based (electronic) index.
